Cake Decorating

Help - first time cake decorator now thinking I can't do what I want to do!

Hi there!

A friend has had to let me down with making a cake for my friends 50th… she couldn’t help it and I understand and I thought I’d rise to the challenge! I came up with my basic idea, which was decorating my cake in psychedelic colours to match our 1960/70s theme for the party. I’ve bought my deep purple fondant icing and I wanted to write all over the cake, word cloud-esque, band names, music genres and festivals that mean something to the four recipients of the cake. I’ve looked up and seen you can purchase edible ink icing pens and I thought perfect! But then I wondered whether the yellow, orange, red and green pens would actually show up on the deep purple fondant or whether they’d just look dark against the purple! I’m running out of time and don’t have chance to practice different things so I was hoping someone might have any ideas as to whether the colours will show, or is there an alternative I should be using and how easy are they to use.
Many thanks in advance,
Sam

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Are you covering your cake in icing or fondant. Two different mediums. If you stick to bright colours, using gel colour, not liquid colouring, they will show up well on the purple. Use yellow, orange, pink, light green..and make as bright as possible.
Hope this helps.

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Many thanks… I went to a cake decorating shop and they said no I couldn’t use them! I’ve since panicked and bought lots of letters and flowers off eBay! Thank you for responding.

The shop said you couldn’t use what?? I’m confused.

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Couldn’t use see the gels… sorry :)

You can use gels to colour buttercream and fondant. So I don’t know what the shop was telling you???

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Oh well… I’ve gone for a flower power theme now. Thank you for taking the time to respond :)
Kind regards
Sam

That sounds like fun. Sure everyone will love it..

Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God. Clarky's Cakes 😎